Meaning of copperskin | Babel Free

Definitions

A Native American; American Indian.

derogatory

Examples

“"language was not created until the several types of race had been fully fixed and determined. The Xanthocroid and the Melanocroid, the white Albino and the American copperskin existed with their features already fixed and enduring before the first community evolved the infantile language of mankind."”

“The Indians had returned and had been around the lake, but she tried to suppress her fear of the copperskins with this thought: If God protects me, I need not be afraid to walk alone through the forest.”

“Fill any copperskin full o' lead if n he gits too close. You hear me now? I cain't watch them brats an' mind them cattle if'n I'm goin' to keep this here wagon on the trail, now kin I?"”

“‘Well, she ain’t no pure copperskin, that she ain’t,’ said a third.”

“The English, damp their black hearts, landed a band of copperskin warriors from Terranova south of our town”

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